Panasonic’s latest EVOLTA & eneloop Batteries
The guys from Panasonic sent us some batteries from their latest ranges. The pace of innovation has never been faster, but as the rate of…
Read MoreThe guys from Panasonic sent us some batteries from their latest ranges. The pace of innovation has never been faster, but as the rate of…
Read MoreOur Solar Array was installed on the 12th September 2016 so last week saw it reach its first anniversary. In Part 2 of our Going Solar…
Here’s an interesting podcast I stumbled across. Host Nico Johnson interviews Stefan Grosjean about the new Smappee Plus device which uses Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM)…
Energy storage is becoming more and more interesting to smart home owners and we recently spotted this write up of a Tesla Powerwall 2 installation…
EV’s are an increasing passion of mine so when Tesla announced they were opening their new store 100 miles down the road in Dublin I was pretty…
As we mentioned in Part 2, the Automated Home’s base line energy consumption is terrible. There’s no point creating all this energy and then throwing it…
Sometimes I really need to step back and take time to be amazed by the Internet. A few days ago I watched a live stream of a…
So last month I traded in my Range Rover for a Nissan Leaf. No really. After my first 1,000 miles here are some rambling thoughts,…
Northern Ireland startup iTouch Energy have been developing an innovative solar blind for several years now… Our mission is to bring Sustainable Energy and Smart…
Elon Musk took to the stage in the early hours of this morning, UK time, to reveal a new Tesla Powerwall 2 with 14kWh of…
Last month we Installed a 4kW Solar Array at the Automated Home. The first thing everyone asks is how much it cost and what the payback time is….
Having watched the price of photovoltaic solar panels steadily fall over the last few years and seeing a drop in incentives looming on the horizon,…